WebSphere Message Broker in shared runtime environments. Typical environment configurations and common set-ups with regards to high availability and workload balancing. What kind of solutions do we see implemented on top of message broker what are the demands for these solutions in terms of availability and isolation? How do we cater for these needs in a shared runtime environment? Also takes a look at the organization developing solutions targeting a shared runtime environment and how different organizations pose different requirements and challenges. Presentation given at IBM Transaction & Messaging conference in Barcelon 2008.

1. TMM20: WebSphere Message Broker in Shared Runtime Environments Mårten Gustafson, Zystems [email_address]

2. Point to Point Spaghetti Middleware Adoption EAI Focusing on Application Integration ESB Focusing on Reusable Services BPM Business Process Management

3. Parts of an ICC (according to Zystems) Communication Delivery Governance Operations ICC

4. Agenda Delivery Governance Operations

6. ICC Organizational Models as defined by Schmidt & Lyle in “Integration Competency Center, An Implementation Methodology” © 2005, Informatica Project silos Best practices Standard services Shared services Central services Self-service

7. Typical shared services ICC BU Project / dev team BU Project / dev team BU Project / dev team BU Project / dev team ICC Governance Operations

10. Typical central services ICC BU BU BU BU ICC Delivery (project / dev team) Operations Governance

15. Typical environment configurations Broker B Broker A Cluster or virtualization technique WMQ cluster / HTTP load balancer

17. Isolation / Partitioning Broker Broker EG EG EG EG EG

19. Customer example 1 MQ cluster Solaris zones + Veritas cluster Broker A Broker B GW QM HTTP Load Balancer Broker C Dedicated, per project Shared between projects (preferred) Broker C Broker … Broker …

20. Customer example 2 MQ cluster A MQ cluster B Broker B2 Broker B1 Broker A1 Broker A2 GW QM1 GW QM2 Extranet DMZ Intranet HTTP load balancer HTTP load balancer

21. Customer example 3 LPAR LPAR AIX HACMP Broker A Broker A

22. Customer example 4 MQ cluster Microsoft Cluster Services Broker A Broker B GW QM

24. State

25. Concurrency

26. HTTP Broker A HTTP load balancer Broker B ? ! biphttplistener biphttplistener SupportPac IE01

27. SOAP Broker B Broker A WMQ cluster / HTTP load balancer EG-embedded listener EG-embedded listener

28. Heads up

29. Timers / Schedules

30. TCP/IP input